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Mental Health Issues and Self-Understanding

  • Posted: Friday, April 06, 2018
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I watched my father struggle endlessly with depression and anxiety as I was growing up; I was certain that I would be resigned to the same fate as the trips to psychiatrists' offices and medication seemed to increase for me over the years. I was told I was bipolar, depressed, and anxious, and yet I remained sober, mindful and proactive in seemingly all the right ways... still it got me nowhere... until I came across The Secret of Letting Go and read it a dozen times. I was flabbergasted at how much of the harm I was causing myself was written on the pages in front of me. I work in the mental health community and am often a resource of help to others. Some seem to take to your message quickly; however, there are some that are almost seemingly too far gone to work at this... even though it's as easy as doing the next right thing. Do you have any advice for those of us who have serious and documented clinical issues in which part of our distorted thinking may in fact be genetic in nature?

Answer:

As long as we can remember that each of us is doing the best we know how to do in each moment, according to our level of understanding (whatever that may be)... then we can see that whatever each of us works to do -- to enlarge our self-understanding -- is the same as learning to transcend whatever former limitation may have held us back the moment before. If someone can't do this interior work, or has no interest in it... then he or she will remain there and where they are, as they are, until something changes in their self-view. Our role: we can't "make" people see themselves, especially those who may be more challenged than others, for whatever reasons, but... we can do the work ourselves to become more compassionate, as well as being -- living as -- a better example of the principles we profess to be true.

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